The following statement will be distributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Israeli officials, and the US State Department urging immediate action for the freedom of Khader Adnan. Please sign on below or email khaderadnan@usacbi.org:
We, the undersigned, write as concerned scholars and academics to demand the immediate release of Palestinian baker and political prisoner Khader Adnan. Adnan has been engaged in a hunger strike for 65 days, since his arrest on December 17, 2011. As academics we are signing to express our commitment to principles of freedom from repression and arbitrary detention, as well as our responsibility to highlight situations of injustice.
During that time, he has not been charged with any crime. He has been instead held under ‘administrative detention’, a procedure in which Palestinian detainees are held without charge or trial for up to six months, which can be renewed indefinitely.
On January 8, 2012, Khader Adnan was given a four-month administrative detention order signed by a military commander. Neither he nor his lawyers have been presented with any evidence, nor any accusations or charges of wrongdoing. Adnan began his hunger strike after suffering physical and psychological abuse at the hands of his interrogators, and was placed in solitary confinement. (For details, please see Addameer’s report.) This is the eighth time Adnan has been detained, and he has served a total of six years in Israeli prisons – mostly without charge or trial under the administrative detention scheme.
We are deeply concerned that Khader Adnan, like thousands of other Palestinians, has been jailed for his political beliefs and his activism to free Palestine from occupation. There are 309 other Palestinians currently held in administrative detention without charge or trial, including 24 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and nearly 4,500 Palestinians in Israeli prisons subject to military courts or ‘security’ trials. Over 40 percent of Palestinian men from the West Bank have been imprisoned or detained by the Israeli occupation at some point in their lives. 20 Palestinian prisoners are held in solitary confinement and isolation, a practice that United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Mendez has urged be banned.
Khader Adnan has lost eighty pounds during his hunger strike. He is unable to walk. Despite this, he is shackled hand and foot to his hospital bed and under armed guard at all times. After fifty days, hunger strikers are at severe risk of death or organ failure; multiple physicians who have examined Adnan have spoken to his precarious physical state. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have joined his hunger strike, and international organizations have joined the call for his release, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Carter Center. Amnesty International has also issued a call to end the use of administrative detention.
Khader Adnan’s hunger strike is a call to the conscience of the world, that requires our urgent international attention and solidarity. He carries with him the voices and the dignity of the Irish hunger strikers of 1981, of Bhaghat Singh and Mohandas Gandhi, and of Palestinian political prisoners over the decades demanding their rights and their freedom, from jail and from occupation.
We demand:
- the immediate freedom of Khader Adnan
- an immediate end to the practice of administrative detention
- an immediate end to the use of solitary confinement and isolation
Khader Adnan has become an international symbol of freedom and dignity in the face of grave injustice. Immediate action must be taken to bring this injustice to an end.
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(1) end its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
(2) recognize the full equality of Palestinian citizens of Israel; and
(3) respect and uphold the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
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- A. Carastathis, California State University Los Angeles
- A.J. Jansen, University of Amsterdam
- Abby Lippman, McGill University
- Adam Sabra, University of Georgia
- Adolph Reed Jr, University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Political Science
- Ajamu Baraka, North-South Center for Human Rights Education and Organizing
- Alan Sears, Ryerson University
- Alan Walach, College of William and Mary
- Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Alex Levant, York University, Toronto
- Alex Lubin, American University of Beirut
- Ali Bsyoni, English teacher
- Ali Hocine Dimerdji, University of Nottingham
- Ali Mili, NJ Academic Institution
- Alice Bach, Case Western Reserve University
- Amanda King, University of Colorado
- Amanda Lashaw, UC Berkeley
- Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
- Andrew Hockley, H&E Education and Management
- Andrew Lugg, Professor Emeritus
- Andrew Paul Gutierrez, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
- Andrew Ross, New York University
- Andy Storey, University College Dublin
- Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania
- Anna Durrans, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Anna Shenk, United for Justice with Peace
- Anne Meneley, Trent University
- Annemarie Jacir, filmmaker
- Anthony Alessandrini, City University of New York
- Anthony Ashbolt, University of Wollongong
- Anthony Sahyoun, Harvard University Medical School
- Antonella Puglisi, University of Queensland
- Arnab Banerji, University of Georgia
- Assaf Kfoury, Boston University
- Auritro Majumder, Syracuse University
- Avishek Ray, Trent University
- B. Bunzee, DIOP/DuBois Institute
- Baha Abu-Laban, University of Alberta
- Basem Khader, Retired
- Beverly Stuart, Antioch University Seattle
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., past president TransAfrica Forum
- Bill Mullen, Purdue University
- Bill Skidmore, Carleton University
- Brian Johnston, Carnegie Mellon University
- Bucker Dangor, imperial College London
- Candace Fujikane, University of Hawai’i, English Department
- Carl Gelderloos, Cornell University
- Carla L. Coco, University of California
- Carol Murry, retired University of Hawai’i at Manoa
- Caroline Herzenberg, Argonne National Laboratory (retired)
- Carwil Bjork-James, CUNY Graduate Center
- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University
- Charles Haragely, University of Vermont
- Charlotte Karem Albrecht, University of Minnesota
- Chee Yow, University of Leeds
- Cheryl Rubenberg, Florida International University
- Christo El Morr, York University
- Cindy Sousa, University of Washington
- Clarice Kuhling, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Corey E. Olsen, UW-Milwaukee
- Craig Higgins, Independent Scholar
- Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai”i
- Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawaii
- Dan Sinykin, Cornell University
- Dana Cloud, University of Texas
- Daniel McGowan, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- David Heap, University of Western Ontario
- David Klein, Professor of Mathematics, California State University – Northridge
- David Landy, Trinity College Dublin
- David Lilburn, University of Limerick
- David Lloyd, University of Southern California
- David May, Purdue University
- David McNally, York University
- David Palmer, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
- David Pellow, University of Minnesota
- David Shorter, University of California
- David Simpson, UC Davis
- David Stein, Univesity of Southern California
- Dawn Peterson, Smith College
- Deborah Brock, York University
- Deema Kaedbey, Ohio State University
- Dennis Kortheuer, California State University, Long Beach
- Diana Abouali, Dartmouth College
- diana Allan, Harvard Society of Fellows
- Diane Conti, Educator
- Diane Shammas, University of Southern California
- Dina Georgis, University of Toronto
- Dominique Sarny, University of Regina, SK (Canada)
- Donald Grayston, PhD, Simon Fraser University
- Douaa Sheet, CUNY
- Douglass St.Christian, University of Western Ontario
- Ebony Coletu, The American University in Cairo
- Edgard Seikaly, None
- Edwin E. Daniel, University of Alberta
- Eiko Kosasa, Leeward Community College, Hawai’i
- Elaine Hagopian, Simmons College
- Elsa Auerbach, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Erin Abraham, University of Wyoming
- Fadzilah Din, International Islamic University Malaysia
- Fatima Jaffer, University of British Columbia
- Felix Salvador Kury-Hasbun, Lecture and Faculty Advisor
- Fouad Moughrabi, Department of Political Science, University of Tennesee at Chattanooga
- Gary Fields, University of California, San Diego
- Gary Kinsman, Sociology Department, Laurentian University
- Gautam Premnath, University of California, Berkeley
- Gavan Lennon, University of Nottingham
- Genevieve Dumas, Queen’s University, Canada
- George M. Hudes, Univ. of Hawaii
- Gerry Hale, UCLA
- Gillian Hart, University of California Berkeley
- Ginette Bauwens, VUBrussels
- Gray Brechin, U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography
- Gregory Burris, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Greta Berlin, University of Illinois
- Guenter Schenk, Retired ex-scientific publishing, Germany
- Haggai Ram, Associate Prof. of History
- Haithem El-Zabri, Palestine Online Store
- Hala Dillsi, Loyola Marymount University
- Hannah Hawkins, University of Nottingham
- Hannan Hammad, TCU
- Harold A. Knight, Southern Methodist University
- Harry Glassbeek, Law/Osgoode Hall Law School
- Hassan Awada, Graduate student researcher
- Hector Reyes, Harold Washington College, Chicago IL
- Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Helen Scott, University of Vermont
- Herbert Docena, Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
- Herman De Ley, Ghent University, Belgium
- Huma Dar, UC Berkeley
- Huma Ibrahim, Qatar University
- Hussein Khalili, Researcher, Stockholm University
- Ibrahim Al-Mohandes, PhD, University of Waterloo
- Ibrahim Aoude, University of Hawaii
- Irene Gendzier, Boston University
- Ismail OURAICh, Purdue University
- J Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University
- Jacob Hyden, Utah Valley University
- Jacob Kuhn, Purdue University
- Jacob Kuhn, Research Assistant, Joyce & Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Purdue University
- Jake Trpstra, IGE
- James C Faris, University of Connecticut
- James Carr, University of Limerick
- James Dennis Hoff, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- James E. McDowell, Stanford University
- James Edward Tarlton, University of Oxford
- James Holdman, Inver HIlls Community College
- Jamie Heckert, Essex Business School
- Jamil Salem, Institute of Law
- Jane Adas, Rutgers University, Newark
- Janice Abushakrah, Portland Community College and Ex Director of Palestinian Human Rights Information Center In Jerusalem
- Jay Lingham, SOAS
- Jeffery R. webber, Queen Mary, University of London
- Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
- Jenny Rowena, Miranda House, Delhi University, India
- Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
- Jerise Fogel, Montclair State University
- Jess Ghannam, University of California, San Francisco
- Jim Holstun, University at Buffalo
- Joanne Heisel, Howard Community College
- Johnny E. Williams, Trinity College
- Jorge Filmus, University of Toronto
- José Carlos de Medeiros Gondim, Universidade Federal Fluminense – Brasil
- Joseph Hill, American University in Cairo
- Joseph Shahadi, New York University
- Jude Roberts, University of Nottingham
- Judit Druks, University College London
- Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Karam AbuSehly, October 6 University
- Karem Said, Stanford University
- Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
- KATIE STOBBS, Durham University
- Katya Miller, Independent Scholar
- Kaveh Niazi, Historian
- KAVITA PHILIP, UC Irvine
- Kenneth Ring, University of Connecticut (Professor Emeritus)
- Kenneth W. Johnson, Penn State University
- Kent Lebsock, Owe Aku International Justice Project
- Kevin Kumashiro, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Kevin Moloney, York University, Toronto
- Khalil Chemayel, Independent Scholar
- Khury Petersen-Smith, Clark University
- Kim Miller, Wheaton College
- Kimberly Katz, Towson University
- Kole Kilibarda, York University
- Kristofer Petersen-Overton, CUNY Graduate Center
- L Cohen, Professor Retired
- Lana Turner, secondary education
- Laura E. Lyons, University of Hawai’i
- Laura Lyons, University of Hawai”i
- Lauren Anderson, University of Georgia
- Laurie King, Georgetown University
- LeAnne Howe, University of Illinois
- Len Findlay M.A. D.Phil. D.Litt. F.R.S.C., University of Saskatchewan
- Liam Campling, Queen Mary, University of London
- Liam Ward, RMIT University (Australia)
- Liliane Janssens, KULeuven
- Lincoln Bergman, University of California, Berkeley
- Liron Mor, Cornell University
- Lisa Maya Knauer, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Louise Walsh, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Lucia Quaresma, Cefac . Rio de Janeiro
- Magid Shihade, Birzeit University
- Maha Yahya, ESCWA
- Mahamood. M. Hassan, California State University, Fullerton
- Mahmood Ibrahim, Cal Poly Pomona
- Maivan Clech Lam, City University of New York Graduate Center
- Maivan Clech Lam, Professor emeritus, City University of New York Graduate Center
- Maliki Ghossainy, The University of Texas at Austin
- Manzar Foroohar, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo
- Mara Naaman, Williams College
- Marc Van de Sompel, Education
- Marcy Newman, Independent Scholar
- Mares Hirchert, BA Sociology Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
- Margaret Himley, Syracuse University
- Margaret Langer, University of the Pacific
- Margaret Leicester, Graduate Student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Margaret Pappano, Queen’s University
- Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Margaret Roberts, Mount Royal University
- Maria Josefina Saldana, Associate Professor
- Marina Urbach, Columbia University: for identification purposes only
- Mark Bould, UWE
- Mark Clinton, Holyoke Community College
- Mark Gonzales, Educator
- Mark Mason, Occupy Oakland
- Mark Richey, Retired California teacher
- Mark Westmoreland, American University in Cairo
- Martha Lincoln, CUNY Graduate Center
- Martin Power, University of Limerick
- Mary-Jo Nadeau, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
- Marzuki Abdullah, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
- Matt Horton, UC Berkeley
- Matteo Mandarini, Queen Mary University of London
- May Seikaly, WSU
- Mehmet Baris Kuymulu, City University of New York, Graduate Center
- Mehmet M Sahin, Metu, Turkey
- Mekhala Devi Natavar, Princeton University
- Michael A Lebowitz, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Michael Billeaux, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Michael Friedman, CUNY
- Michael Palm, UNC-CH
- Michael Shepard, Richland College
- Mirna Miranda, Colorado State University
- Mitul Baruah, Syracuse University, USA
- Mohan Dutta, Purdue University
- Moira E. Croley, Purdue University Alumni
- Moshé Machover, KCL, University of London
- Muhammad Ali Khalidi, York University
- Muriam Davis, NYU
- Musab Younis, Wadham College, Oxford University
- Nada Abdullatif Muhammad Safwat, Ain Shams University
- Nada Elia, Antioch University
- Nada Hossam, International schools of kenana
- Nadia Gaber, UCSF
- Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
- Nadya Sbaiti, Smith College
- Nancy Gallagher, ucsb
- Nancy Withington, Kent State University
- Nareman Amin, American University in Cairo
- Nayef E Saade, American University of Beirut- Faculty of Medicine
- Ned Curthoys, Academic
- Nicholas De Genova, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto
- Nigel Harris, formerly University College London
- Nina Butska, Professor emeritus, Humber College
- Noam Chomsky, MIT
- Noaman Ali, University of Toronto
- Noel Ignatiev, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
- Omar Badsha, South African History Online
- Omar Shakir, Stanford University
- Onur Bilginer, SUNY at Albany
- Oscar Jarzmik, University of Toronto
- Paige Sarlin, Brown University
- Pamela McCarthy, Personal Secular Homeschool
- Pascale Ghazaleh, The American University in Cairo
- Patricia Balcom, Université de Moncton
- Patricia Molloy, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Paul Lauter, Trinity College (Hartford)
- Peter D. Thomas, Brunel University, London
- Peter Eglin, WIlfrid Laurier University
- Peter Gunther, None
- Peter Linebaugh, University of Toronto
- Peter Rachleff, Macalester College
- Philip Gasper, Madison Area Technical College
- Philippe Marius, CUNY Graduate Center
- Priya Chandrasekaran, City University of NY
- Prof Rosalyn Baxandall, City University of New York,
- Professor Richard Seaford, University of Exeter
- Rabab Abdulhadi, SFSU
- Rachael M. Rudolph, Facilitate Global
- Rachael Vinyard, Oklahoma State University
- Rachel A. Jennings, San Antonio College
- Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University
- Rachel Sykes, University of Nottingham
- Ramy Abdeljabbar, Passaic County Community College
- Ramzi Seikaly, Engineering
- Randa Farah, Western University
- Rashmi Varma, University of Warwick, UK
- Ravichandran, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- Raya Fidel, University of Washington
- Raymond William Baker, Trinity College, usa
- Rayya El Zein, CUNY
- Rebecca Kumi, Middle East Technical University
- Rebekah Orr, Syracuse University
- Rev. Dr. Werner Lange, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
- Rev. James L. Swarts, States University of New York at Geneseo
- Richard Collier, Mount Royal University
- Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Rita Tower, Seattle University
- Robert Elias Abushanab, Univ.of Nevada at Las Vegas
- Robert Trivers, Rutgers University
- Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA
- Robin D.G. Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles
- Robin Riley, Syracuse University
- Roger Dittmann, US Federation of Scholars and Scientists
- Ron Smith, University of Washington
- Ronald Fujiyoshi, United Church of Christ
- Rosaura Sanchez, UCSD
- Rose Marie Kuhn, California State University Fresno
- Rosemary Sayigh, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, American University of Beirut
- Saadia Toor, City University of New York
- Sadia Khan, University of Toronto
- Sadique pk, SSUS,Kalady,Kerala,India
- Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University
- Salman Hussain, The Graduate Centre, CUNY
- Sameh Khader, Al-Quds Open University
- Samia Vasa, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
- Sara Motta, University of Nottingham
- Sarah Daw, University of Exeter
- Sarita See, University of California, Davis
- Sasha Lofquist, researcher, writer
- Sherene Seikaly, American University in Cairo
- Sherna Berger Gluck, California State University, Long Beach
- Sherna Berger Gluck, Emerita Faculty, California State University, Long Beach (CA)
- Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Review
- Shira Robinson, The George Washington University
- Shireen Khazeni, University of Utah
- Shuja Malik, University of Kansas
- Simona Sawhney, University of Minnesota
- Snehal Shingavi, University of Texas, Austin
- Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles
- Sophia Azeb, University of Southern California
- Sophie Bjork, CUNY, Graduate Center
- Sriram Ananth, University of Minnesota
- Sriya Shrestha, University of Southern California
- Staughton Lynd, independent scholar
- Steve Edwards, Open University
- Steve Kowit, Southwestern College
- Steve Roddy, USF
- Stuart Cryer, Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology
- Sue Ferguson, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Sumayya Syed, UBC
- Susan M. Akram, Boston University School of Law
- Susan Pearce, East Carolina University
- sylvat aziz, Queen’s University
- Sylvie Paquerot, Université of Ottawa
- Tarek, Bachelor of commerce and business adm
- Targol Mesbah, California Institute of Integral Studies
- Tatiana Young, University of Washington-Seattle
- Ted Stolze, Cerritos College
- Terri Ginsberg, International Council for Middle East Studies
- Thomas Askjellerud, Oslo University
- Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University
- Tom Hayes, Ohio University
- Tracy Wallach, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Tsolin Nalbantian, Leiden University (Netherlands)
- Uri Davis, AL-QUDS University, Jerusalem/Abu Dis, Palestine
- Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College
- Vannina Sztainbok, University of Toronto
- Venkatesh Athreya, Independent Researcher/Retired Professor
- Veronica Golos, Retired. Poet
- Vijay Prashad, author Darker Nations: A People”s History of the Third World
- Walid Afifi, University of California at Santa Barbara
- William A. Cook, University of La Verne
- Zalfa Feghali, University of Nottingham
- Zeynep Oguz, Student/Harvard University
- Zineb Ait Addi, International Coach Academy
- Zoe Goorman, artist, Jewish Voices for Peace
- Zoe Lawlor, University of Limerick
